Evaluating videotaped confessions: Expertise provides no defense against the camera-perspective effect

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 224-226

  Lassiter, G Daniel ^a   Diamond, Shari Seidman ^b,c   Schmidt, Heather C ^a   Elek, Jennifer K ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAWYER; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICE; PRISONER; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

COGNITION; CRIMINAL LAW; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LAWYERS; LIE DETECTION; PERCEPTION; POLICE; PREJUDICE; PRISONERS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247279776     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01879.x     Document Type: Article

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